In a small town among the citrus groves in the Santa Bernita Valley, so the locals claim, nothing ever goes according to plan. "It's a great place to live, they say, if yo...
Год 1844-й. В лондонском работном доме появляется Мороженая Женщина, которая тут же производит на свет странного младенца.
Год 1845-й. На севере Англии, в деревушке Танде...
‘A lovely book – sensuous, sad and often extremely funny... an intense, richly textured narrative. Koning deftly weaves multiple viewpoints...’ Patrick Gale, Daily Telegra...
The winner of the Australian Booksellers' Award, a novel in which notions and memories and fiction and reality float together as an octogenarian narrates the legend of the...
The first time my husband hit me I was nineteen years old.' For eighteen years Fran Benedetto kept her secret, hid her bruises. She stayed with Bobby because she wanted h...
What does it take for a woman to be judged saintly? In this wily, wonderfully original novel, Michèle Roberts tells the story of the fictional Saint Josephine: her life an...
In Rochester, New York, a seventy-five-year-old artist, Austin Fraser, is creating a new series of paintings recalling the details of his life and of the lives of those in...
Evangeline is a single parent whose child is the daughter of her sister, who was killed in a motorbike accident. Evangeline, who was driving the bike, sustained injuries w...
A postmodern Mary Shelley, taking the parable of Frankenstein's monster several giant steps farther, might have written this fable of a novel about a tragic race of monste...
What happens when someone you know and trust is accused of rape? What if that person is your brother who was placed in your sole charge from the age of a few months and wh...
The whole purpose of magic is the fulfilment and intensification of desire, claims the ventriloquist-narrator as he tells his stories of love and catastrophe. The novel is...
A house gun, like a house cat: a fact of ordinary life, today. How else can you defend yourself against losing your hi-fi equipment, your TV set and computer? The respecte...
Иллюзии и превращения были частью жизни Сабины. Как ассистентка известного фокусника она знала, откуда в шляпе появляется кролик, умела исчезать на глазах у зрителей и мил...
"I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?" The question is posed by Jean, a photographer, who arrives on Smuttynose Island, off th...
The new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘The Stone Diaries’.
Larry’s Party is about being a man in this part of the twentieth century, when so ma...
The New York of Lynne Tillman’s hilarious, audacious fourth novel is a boiling point of urban decay.
The East Village streets are overrun with crooked cops, drug addicts,...
In this comic, fiercely compassionate novel, David Gates, whose first novel Jernigan was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, sends his protagonist on a visceral journey to ...
“Часы” — самое известное сочинение Каннингема, признанное лучшим американским романом 1999 года и удостоенное Пулитцеровской премии и награды ПЕН / Фолкнер. Как устроено в...
"Включенные в этот сборник рассказы, которые ранее публиковались в журнале «Нью-Йоркер», представлены здесь в существенно измененном виде." (из предисловия автора).
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A novel of loss, identity, and, in the strangest of places, hope.
Leonard Trader is a luthier, a maker of guitars. Johnny Devlin is chronically unemployed. Leonard is s...